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Best Newmann Humor Fanfics

The best humor Newmann (Newton Geiszler/Hermann Gottlieb) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. Comedy is fandom's love language — affectionate mockery of a canon's absurdities — and a fic that makes readers actually laugh out loud earns permanent bookmark status.

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Newton Geiszler's High School Reunion

Humor

by fangirlSevera

It’s like those old movies about the unpopular kid from high school going back for the ten year reunion who gets to rub his riches and trophy wife in the faces of his old bullies. Except this isn't high school, it's a university lecture. Instead of money, he's got the saving the world thing. And Her

1,810 kudos 1,429 words 1/1 chapters General Audiences
2

ich hasse dich

by que_sera

Anyone who has spent any amount of time in the Hong Kong research division knows to clear out when Newt and Hermann start screaming at each other in German. Raleigh has not spent any time in the research division. He's also beginning to question his knowledge of German. For instance, did Newt really

7,659 kudos 3,418 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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All of Your Flaws and All of My Flaws

by CinnamonCake

Hermann is still there tomorrow and the day after and Newton tries to not break his face with the door again.

4,141 kudos 5,132 words 1/1 chapters Mature
4

big teeth small kiss

by magneticwave

It takes Raleigh three accidental meetings, two scoops of vanilla ice cream, and an economics textbook to fall for Mako Mori harder than he’s fallen for anything else in his entire life. Yancy, predictably, laughs his ass off about it.

3,817 kudos 7,769 words 1/1 chapters General Audiences
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it wouldn't be make believe

by infinituity

"By the way, dude," he says, and he reaches down both to grab his notepad as well as to avoid looking at Hermann, "my parents think we're dating."Instead of the expected angry yelling, he gets only silence in response, so he looks up to see Hermann opening his mouth to speak, reconsidering, closing

3,331 kudos 11,669 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
6

Seeing in Color

by what_alchemy

The Dr. Geiszler Hermann had found in the publications — printed pages worn with constant handling and tucked into his briefcase for easy access — was an eloquent scientist whose work functioned at a level far above almost anyone else Hermann had ever encountered in the field, and yet he neither pat

2,907 kudos 7,396 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
7

Bear Your Neighbor's Burden Within Reason

by callmejude

written for the kink meme prompt: "Hermann's cane ends up being lost/broken. Until he can get a replacement, he has to (reluctantly) rely on Newt to get around. Cue them wandering around arm in arm. It starts off annoying and a little embarrassing at first, but they soon settle into a routine that e

2,816 kudos 6,225 words 1/1 chapters General Audiences
8

Anthology

by irisbleufic

The first thing [Newton] does when he gets to his office, smarting from the needle and high on endorphins, is email the eccentric mathematician in Cambridge, the other Cambridge a non-creature-infested ocean away, with whom he’d been corresponding for a while and whom his colleagues have begun to ca

2,803 kudos 153,000 words 30/30 chapters Explicit
9

Zegepraal

by ezlebe

"It’s not that I find you completely incompetent," Hermann says, startling Newton slightly as he steps just to the left, clumsily sliding down next to him against the steel wall.

2,506 kudos 664 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
10

Become What We’ve Always Been

by irisbleufic

Hermann doesn't have enough time to experience a crisis over Newton's response to his unvoiced request; he's drifting into that self-same lethargy, eyelids heavy, his arm across the cane gone slack.

2,390 kudos 3,000 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
11

Not While I'm Around

by callmejude

written for the kinkmeme prompt: In all the years they've worked with each other, Hermann can't remember ever seeing Newt angry - upset and frustrated, maybe, but never angry. Sure, they argue and raise their voices at each other all the time, but that's just lively intellectual discourse - they're

2,310 kudos 1,850 words 1/1 chapters General Audiences
12

Heartlines.

by lornrocks

Based on this prompt from the kink meme: Established relationship - Newton was afraid he'd lose his wedding ring inside kaiju entrails, so he ended up tattooing a few lines of the kaiju appearance equation/a line the Jaeger OS code in a band around his finger instead of wearing one.

2,248 kudos 1,152 words 1/1 chapters General Audiences
13

It's All in the Hands of a Lazy Projector

by patster223

Hermann is cursed as a child so that he may never remember anyone he meets. Theoretically, this should make falling in love impossible, but then he meets (and meets and meets and meets) Newton Geiszler.

2,136 kudos 10,589 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
14

Listening

by cypress_tree

Newt has a dirty talk kink, and Hermann has a really nice voice.

2,122 kudos 6,759 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
15

Into a White and Soundless Place

by callmejude

written for the kink meme prompt: In most of the fics I've read for this pairing, Newt is the one kind of driving the relationship. I'd like to see the opposite. Something where Hermann is the one who courts Newt/flaunts their relationship/asks Newt to stay with him. It also probably isn't going to

1,923 kudos 5,486 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
16

corpus callosum

by Anonymous

1 + 1 = 1.

1,782 kudos 13,220 words 1/1 chapters Mature
17

No Need for Strangers

by billiethepoet

Newt takes the time to closely examine what he saw in Hermann's mind during their drift with the Kaiju.

1,762 kudos 4,084 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
18

Darling

by BeeLove

In which Newton rides Hermann for all he's worth. Or at least tries to.

1,620 kudos 2,970 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
19

hyphen

by buckgaybarnes

After a minor misunderstanding leads people to believe Newt and Hermann are married, Newt and Hermann decide to play along. It all goes swimmingly—that is, until Hermann realizes he enjoys the charade a bit more than he should.

1,535 kudos 7,140 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
20

First

by cypress_tree

Newt and Hermann's first time is Newt's first first time.

1,528 kudos 3,510 words 1/1 chapters Explicit

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Why Humor Newmann Fanfiction Works So Well

Newton Geiszler/Hermann Gottlieb — Pacific Rim's bickering K-science duo — the kaiju groupie and the chalkboard mathematician — drift together in the finale, sharing minds to save the world. Ten years of antagonistic correspondence, one neural handshake, and a sequel where rescuing Newt from possession falls to Hermann.

Humor — Fic written to make you laugh: crack premises played straight, group-chat chaos, banter-driven romcoms, and comedies of errors starring characters canon treats with deadly seriousness. One of AO3's biggest tags for good reason.

Lab-partner divorce energy with a literal mind-meld; drift compatibility is the most romantic technobabble ever filmed. Comedy is fandom's love language — affectionate mockery of a canon's absurdities — and a fic that makes readers actually laugh out loud earns permanent bookmark status. That's why humor Newmann fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.

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